Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1925 — Page 6

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Selling Indianapolis -5-IMERSON once said something to this effc*; feet: That if a man made a better mouse trap than his neighbor, even though he lived in the wilderness, the world would make a beaten path to his door. Emerson was right as far as he went, but he didn’t go far enough. In the first place, the maker of the superior mouse trap had to be convinced in his own mind that his trap was better than all others mamJactured. In the second place, he had to let the world know that he was making a better mouse trap than his neighbor. With this combination —a superior product, confidence, and advertising, the maker of the mouse trap could not only assure a beaten path, but in all probability he would cause a concrete road to be built to his door. The same principle that applies to a 1 v mouse trap applies as well to a'great city. Indianapolis, for instance. The honcst-to-goodness truth of the matter is that Indianapolis is superior in many respects to other cities. We citizens of Indianapolis have made a better city than have many of our neighbors. We have the product. What we lack is confidence and advertising. We must first convince ourselves that we have made a better city than our neighbors have built. Then we must proceed to tell the world, We are not exactly in the wilderness, but with the combination of a superior product, confidence and advertising we can make the 6teel rails hum with business coming to our door. ;■ Let’s stop complaining. If things in Indianapolis don’t suit us, let’s get busy and make them right. Nobocly else can or will do it for us. If we don’t like our form of city government, let’s get anew one. Hundreds of other cities have done it. If we want more industries, let’s go after them. Other cities with fewer advantages than those possessed by Indianapolis have turned the. trick. If we don’t like the gas barrage being thrown up from the Florida coast, let’s sell our own people on the advantages of Indianapolis. The advantages are here. Remember, yoti can EARN a living in Indianapolis. It is a city of PRODUCERS. Life is riot a gamble here. You don’t have to depend on the vagaries of real estate speculation for your living. ' Let’s sell ourselves on the advantages of Indianapolis. We can do it honestly because the advantages are here, f.j Then let’s sell Indianapolis to the world.

Does Travel Broaden? TpIOURISTS may be divided into three i classes. 1. Those who think everything abroad superior to anything at home. , 2. Those who think everything at home superior to anything abroad. 3. Those with open minds and the mentality to recognize the truth when they see it. i We are strong for travel, especially travel for statesmen. Generally speaking, it should be a qualification sine qua non for holding office. But, unfortunately, our statesmen are human and, like nine out of ten other travelers, they mostly belong to classes one and two. Now there’s Representative Charles L. Underhill of Somerville, Mass., ;just back from a brief stay in the Philippines. Being a member of the House committees on accounts, claims, flood control and the Dis-

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trict of Columbia, he quickly solved the riddle of the far East. And no sooner home than he went to Swampscott to put the President wise. We have given the Filipinos altogether too much liberty, he told President Coolidge. It’s high time, he said, that we read the riot act to them. They’re not fit to govern themselves and we should take back many of the privileges we have already granted. Then we should make Gen. Leonard Wood the real toss out there and so put an end to nonsense. Now the President knows what to do. Follow the Underhill tip and our troubles will all be over—7,ooo miles “over” the Pacific, where we would have a first-class insurrection on our hands. Mr. Underhill forgets that Congress, of which he is a member, has put itself officially on record with the promise to set the Filipinos free. Equally public and official is the promise to let them govern themselves meanwhile, under an American governor general. If we turn back the clock now and violate that pledge, not only will 10,000,000 people rise in arms against it, but the whole world will be on their side just as it was on the side of Cuba when “Butcher” Weyler was doing his dirty work down there for Spain. Whether the Filipinos are capable of selfgovernment depends upon the point of view. Mr. Underhill himself will probably admit there isn’t a country on earth so well governed as America. Then why insist on American standards for the Filipinos ? It may very well be that they will never reach that standard. It would be difficult indeed for them to produce a scandal as big as Teapot Dome or make such a consummate fizzle of law enforcement as we are making of prohibition. Manila will never see the day when her streets are as safe for murderers, thugs and outlaws as are those of Chicago, Nev r York and our other large cities, and it is unreasonable to expect the Filipinos to equal our nation-wide crime wave or our small number of convictions. Aside from such things as these, the Filipinos are doing pretty well and have been for the past ten years. Our statesmen are great travelers nowadays. It’s getting to be a habit. Whenever and wherever things get too complex for the natives to settle, our r co'ngfesbicmal trouble shooters hop to it—across the Atlantic or the Pacific, it makes little difference—and lo! They bring •the answer straight back to the President. Folks say President Coolidge lacks a-sense of humor. Thank goodness for that. Otherwise he would laugh himself to death.

A Man Emerges I VERY great crisis in world history has produced a man to meet it. The War of the Revolution—there was Washington. The war of the Secession—there, was Lii - coin. And now, in what seems to be the greatest crisis of all, there emerges a MAN I It isn’t Wayne B. Wheeler. It isn’t Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews. You are crying, “Who? Who?” 1 ou shall know, but it requires another p?i,ragraph. Fred Bing! Representative Fred Bing of the Ohio Legislature. That’s him! “My measure,” says Hon. Bing, “is to abolish hip pockets in all men’s suits. * Liquor is the cause of all immorality, and when hip pockets are abolished there is not much chance for men to carry flasks.”

yield considerably to the pressure due to the weight of the body, when it is erect, and expand themselves while the body is in a recumbent position. This effect may . amount to as much as half an Inch in the case of a heavy man of, say 5 ft. 10 Inches in height. Could helium be substituted for ammonium in the manufacture of ice? Since helium does not have the same properties as ammonium gas it could not well he substituted ir. the manufacture of Ice.. Morerover, helium cannot at present be obtained in quantities large enough to be available for commercial use. To what did the slogan used by the Democratic party in the campaign of 1844. “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight” refer? This referred to the claims of England to a portion of the Oregon country. Those using this slogan demanded the whole of the district as far north as degrees 40 minutes, the southern boundary of Alaska. Answer to M. W., City: Write Charles A. Rockwell, secretary State Industrial board, 432 Statehouse. Summer has its advantages. A flivver radiator seldom freezes tight during August.

Brand New By Hal Cochran ‘‘For goodness sake, kidlets, sit still for a while, and keep your feet off of the seat. Just try and remember you’re ridin’ in style, and you’re lucky to have such a treat. “Quit rubbin’ your hands all around on the glass, an’ PLEASE leave those curtains alone. Now, hush up there, Marion; none of your sass. And, Tom, you can Just change your tone. “Say, Mom, where’s the dust cloth? The thing was brand new. I had It a minute ago. You surely remember, I gave It to you. Where Is it? Does anyone know? , "Let’s see, now, you throw in your clutch, so I’ve heard, and then give the engine some gas. You slip into first, then to second and third. WE’RE GOIN’i Say, isn’t this class?” Aw, surely, you’ve guessed It. The story is old, and its happened to you, like as not. Through dad’s conversation how plainly ’tis told, It’s a brand new machine that he’s got. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) But warm weather’s so hot. It makes you lazy. And lazy folks are liable to forget and §tart thinking. People work harder In winter. Work takes mind off the few troubles Which work won’t end. Even gossips could be worse. They would talk faster if their teeth were rubber and bounced.

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SCIENCE IS ON TRACK OF NEW WA Y TO CURE DISEASE

By David Diet* NBA Service IV riter SHE discovery of insulin, which brought Dr. Banting and his three colleagues at the University of Toronto the Nobel prize, did not only mean that a cure for diabetes had been found. Subsequent developments have proved that it gave the medical man anew method of attacking disease and the scientists anew insight Into the workings of the human mechanism. ' Insulin is an extract made from parts of the pancreas of animals. Diabetes, it has been shown, Is caused by degeneration of the human pancreas, so that it no longer pours a certain secretion or harmone into the blood. Lack of his harmone makes It impossible for the human system to assimilate sugar. Scientists seek to ascertain what is the function of each gland In the body. They seek also to Isolate these harmones and learn their exact chemical nature. The accomplishment of these desires would mark one of the greatest advances in medical science In history. Another step has Just been taken I*l the right direction by one of the pioneers on the frontier of science. Dr. John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins University has succeeded in purifying and concentrating insulin so that it is several times as effective as the ordinary insulin product obtained heretofore. He announced at the same time that he hopes soon to obtain abso-

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

A CITY FOREST IHARLES LATHROP PACK. president of the American fc.) Tree Association and one of the country’s most ardent advocates of reforestation, has written Mayor Shank urging that Indianapolis establish a city forest. The letter was prompted by the publicity given hizzoner’s recent

idea, vision or mirage—that of acquiring the Fletcher estate for a city park. The town forest idea has spread rapidly In eastern States in recent years. It is an important part of the reforestation program that is now attracting attention in many States. In Massachusetts forty-two towns have set

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aside land for tree growing on a . -.commercial scale. ' Fitchburg, Mass., which established a town forest In 1914 —-the first in the country—has already marketed almost enough timber from its tract to pay the maintenance cost. Undoubtedly Intelligent reforestation offers great. possibilities to municipalities and States, particularly in the Middle West, where lumbering was once an important Industry. Indiana has made a feeble start on a forestry policy. Michigan is undertaking reforestation on a large scale —one of the tracts It has set aside for tree growing comprises 48,000 acres. Perhaps some time a municipal forest will be a feasible idea in Indianapolis. But Just now we have more pressing civic needs. We do not at present need to establish a local Sherwood forest to conserve our Robin Hoods and other wild life. SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE SWO Indianapolis men, Donald McGibeny and Dr. V. Sparks, are among the dozen American aviators recently sent to Morocco for service as volunteers in the French adr force In the war with the Rlfflans. Another cont.ngent of fifteen American volunteers is expected to leave Paris in a few days. These Americans are not risking their lives in defense of any great principle, or to advance civilization. The outcome of the colonial war France is waging against the wild Moroccan tribesmen is of no immediate concern to them. They are only soldiers of fortune. For a franc * day and the prospect of martial,glory- they gamble with eternity over the sun-baked hills of Northern Africa. Who says the spirit of adventure is dead? Seventy years ago William Walker, a native -of Tennessee, entered Nicaragua, a soldier of fortune in a comic opera Central American revolution. He rose to be dictator, but his dream of empire quickly faded. He was the first one of the great American soldie’-s of fortune, whose exploits fired popular imagination. Since then, wherever wars, big or little, have broken out in the world, adventurous American have gone to fight and die in other peoples’ quarrels. We are a pacific nation. But our youths are more thrilled by reading Richard Harding Davis’ “Soldiers of Fortune” than Bryan’s “Prince of Peace.” War still seems romantic business. PARKING IN KENTUCKY AVE. mHE city council, at its last meeting, passed an ordinance abolishing center parking in Kentucky Ave., between Washington and Georgia Sts. Hereafter vehicles slumbering In that street must snuggle up to the curb as in other respectable thoroughfares. Indianapolis Is struggling with

lutely pure insulin and to learn its chemical compound. He believes that it is a sulphur compound. His next hope is that once the nature of insulin is learned, it may be possible to manufacture it by ordinary chemical means. This would greatly simplify the process and greatly reduce the cost of insulin. • • • EORGE EASTMAN, who recently retired from the presli___J dency of the Eastman Kodak Cos., his announced his intention of turning naturalist and explorer after the precedent set by Theodore Roosevelt. He is planning to go to Africa to collect museum specimens of big game, birds and plants. Carl Akeley, famous big game hunter and explorer, will be a mem her of the party. • • • G f —I ERMANY, it appears, is making plans to get into the air u__J race for the north pole. Amundsen tried and fell short of the pole, under the Norwegian flag. MacMillan, flying the American flag, Is now in the Arctic. He seek unknown lands near the pole rather than the pole itself. In England. Algarsson plans to seek the pole by dirigible. Now word comes from Germany that an International Arctic Research and Exploration Society has been formed with plans to raise $1,750,000 to build a Zeppelin at the famed Friedrichshafen works for,a polar expedition.

increasing traffic congestion in the downtown section. City officials dangerously and heroically overtax their brains trying to devise systems to expedite the movement of traffic in and out of the heart of town. Center parking in Kentucky Ave. doesn’t help solve the problem; it only aggravates it. By nature and design that street should be one of the most important and heavily travelled thoroughfares leading to the center of town. It is the direct route for all traffic from the extensive southwest section and beyond. With the opening of the White River bridge a few months hence its importance will increase. Yet instead of being a healthy traffic artery this street, particlarly jjetween Washington and Maryland, has become a varicose vein where taxicabs, busses and, other motor debris stagnate in the center of the roadway. Private automobiles thread it at peril. Center parking is no doubt a feasible system in towns with wide streets and sluggish civic pulse. But Indianapolis is not that sort of town and center parking within-a biock of one of the-busi-est corners in Indiana is a nuisance. It is high time it was abolished and Kentucky Ave. permitted to become a decent thoroughfare, a respectable member of the family instead of a frowzy, unloved, stepchild sort of street.

ENFORCEMENT OF OF PROHIBITION rrrri ILLIAM H. REMY, Marlpn County prosecutor, hopes ____| with the aid of his four new deputies, appointed to prosecute liquor violations, to make Indianapolis the Great American Desert. They will try to chase every illicit swallow from the county line to the county Jail. Perhaps the intensive campaign planned will effectually dry-up the county—every good citizen who does not possess an Imperative. thirst hopes e°- Perhaps, as Is frequently the case, the liquor drive will merely run around In circles and bark furiously. Enforcement of prohibition Is taking more extensive effort and elaborate machinery than all our other criminal statutes combined. The same effort put Into the suppression of murder, banditry and bigamy would reduce those hoary, old Crimes almost to extinction. But the Demon Rum has more lives than a cat and survives drive after drive. A considerable percentage of the people do nst consider violation of the prohibition law as a sin. And many officers sworn to law enforcement show even less respect for the statute. Early this week a member of the State police force was arrested on charges of accepting a bribe of SIOO from a rum runner. The following day the Indianapolis board of safety took up the case of a local policeman charged with drunkenness. The same day a raid on the home of a former city policeman yielded several gallons of liquor. Such Incidents are common throughout the country. Until public opinion and officers are as dry inside as outside, In private as in public, prohibition enforcement will move erratically despite its elaborate machinery. FARMERS UTILIZE MARL Kosciusko Residents Show Demand for Fertilizer. Bu United Pre MILFORD, Ind., Aug. 6.—Value of marl as a fertilizer and builder of depreciated soils in north central Indiana is weekly becoming more apparent, according to Tom Parker, agricultural agent for Koslcusko County. He estimatep 25,000 cubic yards have been taken from six pits during 1924, and hauled to farms. It is sold to land ownerr at the pits at 65 cents a cubic yard.

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The Outline of Evolution

CHAPTER 7 The First Undertakers SHE undertaker is nature's first historian. His is the oldest profession. But, unfortunately, he was hot with us when life originated, or we could tell more about it. He developed when deaths became more plentiful, and when traffic became more congested so that his ambulances could get a greater thrill speeding through it. It is from the undertaking exhlbies of the past that we gather most of the information that the fundamentalists don't want us to teach. These exhibits are spoken of as “fossils,” which is a scientific term for what undertakers refer to as “remains” and a popular term for some of our legislators, chaperones and leading citizens. Speaking in the strict scientific sense, however, the first fossils were very unimpressive. And this is in spite of the fact that life had already existed some millions of years previously. Y.ou will note that I always -refer to “some Millions of years,” which allows a reasonable lapse of time and is no more experish'# than leaving oft-porne of-the ciphers. _ . . { From our one-celled Original' ancestors, there had developed quite a quantity of beings—worms and plant-like animals and moss-like-bugs and similar things. But to get back to the undertak-

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THE SPUDZ" FAMILY—By TALBURT

ers. The first citizens of our justlyfamous globe were extremely lacking in backbones, skulls and other enduring features, and hence they left no remains that the undertakers could preserve beyond a few fleeting days. Came a'’time, however, when stronger bodies left better corpses, and deep in the rocks of the Palaeozoic drift we have discovered these first examples of the undertaker’s art, I regret having to work in the word “Palaeozoic" on you. but this being a scientific treatise the offense is unavoidable. The Palaeozoic Age was several million years ago preceding the time when the first, plans were made to build a coliseum In Indianapolis. (Tomorrow —Birmingham's First Funerals.) A Thought A thousand years In thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.— Psalms 90:4. • • • O time! Time! How It brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever, forever changing.—Carlyle. It’s--all - right to slap a girl now. You can claim you are seeing if t.'<e paint is dry.

THURSDAY, AUG. 6, 1025

Tom Sims Says A dog catcher lead* a hard Ilfs. Cats are his only friends.

People are funny folks. Everybody looks down on somebody. All's fair In love and war. Women used enough rouge last year to paint navy. And the women are painting their ’ knees. It Is sensible. Mosquitoes will get painter's cramps. Bad Alabama news today. Car

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of eggs wrecked. And the hens working so hard In the hot sun. But the world could he worse, much worse. Wouldn’t it he terrible If you had to chew watermelon? Wo know a girl who 1* to oldfashioned she still enjoys working crossword puzzles. M Don't believe everything. A sales* man clalma he heard a. Pullman conversation that wasn't about liquor. Strange news from Paris. Msn really laughPd himself to death, ' Maybe he saw an American tourist. ] (Copyright, 1925 NliA Service, Inc.)